Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025
Massaoke - Sing The Musicals: The Live Band Sing-along Party
Friday 24 January 2025
Direct from London's West End, the first national tour of the greatest musicals ofall time performed by Massaoke, a sensational live band and character singers, with a giant screen displaying sing along lyrics. Expect to hear songs from Mam...
A Celebration of Father Ted with Joe Rooney
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Celebrate one of the greatest sitcoms ever made, as renowned actor and stand-up comedian Joe Rooney presents a night of all things Father Ted! Joe featured as the rebellious Father Damo in the classic Father Ted episode The Old Grey Whis...
LUCKY TONIGHT
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Join us for?LUCKY TONIGHT!,?where quizmaster extraordinaire (and former contestant of The Chase!) Afreena will put you through your paces to help her tell her story. From the streets of Old Trafford to the shores of Cox?s Bazaar, Afreena sh...
Presence
Friday 24 January 2025
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they?re not alone in Steven Soderbergh's latest....
The Brutalist
Friday 24 January 2025
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect L?szl? Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage....
Mondo Queero 3: My Own Private Idaho
Friday 24 January 2025
On January 24th we will be screening Gus Van Sant's gorgeous 1991 drama My Own Private Idaho starting Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix at Carlton Club....
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight
Saturday 25 January - Saturday 21 June 2025
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight. This experience comes to life when the city's...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Queen
Saturday 25 January 2025
Enjoy a beautifully unique classical music performance with a twist. Walk into emblematic surroundings where the walls will be flickering with candlelight to create a magical atmosphere. The best local musicians will be playing a tribute to...
Jenny Eclair
Saturday 25 January 2025
In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to venues nationwide with a brand-new autobiographical show, Jokes Jokes Jokes Live! From drama school,...
Tredegar Town Band
Saturday 25 January 2025
One of most famous brass bands in the UK a seen on Britain's Got Talent, the BBC Proms and in the BAFTA winning film 'Pride', the 2019 Welsh Champions and Double British Open Champions, perform at the RNCM Brass Band. Benjamin Britten arr ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 25 January - Saturday 29 November 2025
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
ComedySportz
Saturday 25 January - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
A Little Bawl of Pain
Saturday 25 January 2025
Mourn the new year in style with an Unforgettable Musical Experience! Building on the success of their production I Screamed A Scream, West End Best Friend and the Old Joint Stock are thrilled to present a heartwarming new show designed to ...
Junior RNCM Brass Band
Saturday 25 January 2025
A free concert from the Junior RNCM Brass Band as part of the RNCM Brass Band Festival. Junior RNCM is a vibrant community of gifted young musicians aged 8 to 18 who come together to develop their talent at the Royal Northern College of Mus...
Nina Conti
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Sunday 26 January 2025
The virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner is back on tour with a new show, Whose Face is it Anyway? London-born Nina Conti (and Monkey) has regularly sold out shows all over the world with her widely acclaim...
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Sunday 26 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
Sathnam Sanghera - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Sunday 26 January 2025
imes columnist and multi-award-winning author and historian, Sathnam Sanghera revealed how Empire continues to shape life in Britain today in his ground-breaking work, Empireland. Now, he joins us LIVE to explore its lasting impact on t...
Cory Band
Sunday 26 January 2025
2022 European and Welsh National Champions, the famous brass band from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales perform as part of the RNCM Brass Band Festival. Dean Goffin Rhapsodic Variations - My Strength, My TowerJ Wilfred Heaton Air Varie -...
RNCM Brass Band
Sunday 26 January 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
Crafty Fools - Adventures in Science
Sunday 26 January 2025
Seriously Silly Science for All Ages Join 'The Magical Mr West' on an incredible adventure into the world of science! Aided by his corvid companion Crowbert and a collection of curious contraptions, Mr West demonstrates the fundamental prin...
Imitation of Life
Sunday 26 January 2025
The story of the relationships between a star (Lana Turner), her maid (Juanita Moore), and their daughters, is one of Douglas Sirk?s most impressive late Hollywood melodramas....
The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals
Monday 27 January 2025
It's back! The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals is returning to the AO Arena Manchester on 27th January 2025. The musical theatre-infused concert sees Jason Manford return as host with the show usually aired later on television and...
Acosta Danza - Nutcracker in Havana
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
A Cuban take on the favourite festive classic, Carlos Acosta's brand-new production Nutcracker in Havana explodes onto the stage, featuring new choreography by Carlos Acosta CBE performed by more than 20 dancers from his Cuban company, Acos...
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Monday 27 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
Bad Science
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
Darkly satirical and fast paced, Bad Science is a cautionary tale of what happens when a discipline of care morphs into one of control. ...
NOW That's What I Call A Musical
Tuesday 28 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Celebrating 40 years of iconic and chart-topping compilation albums, this brand-new musical comedy has an unbeatable 80s soundtrack and show-stopping direction and choreography by Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood. This is an even...
Ben Elton
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Ben Elton, the undisputed godfather of modern stand-up is going back on the road with his new show - Authentic Stupidity. Ben first exploded into the national consciousness back in the 1980's, hosting Channel 4's ground breaking Saturday Li...
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Tuesday 28 January 2025
A swashbuckling take on the horror genre, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is one of the most entertaining productions to emerge from Hammer Films in the 1970s...
XS Malarkey with Amy Annette
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
Buffy Revamped
Wednesday 29 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Fresh from a smash-hit run at Edinburgh Fringe, this fast-paced new production from comedian Brendan Murphy - whose last show, Friend: The One with Gunther, recently won the award for Best Play in the World Wide Comedy Awards - brings y...
Dan and Phil
Wednesday 29 - Thursday 30 January 2025
YouTubers Dan and Phil are back to heal your inner child and take back what the internet took from them. In their new screamingly hilarious live stage show, Terrible Influence, it's a new era. They're older, gayer, Phil's gone blonde, and n...
Jason Fox - Life at The Limit
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Ex-special forces soldier, star of TV's SAS: Who Dares Wins, Inside The Real Narcos and author of The Number One Bestseller Battle Scars; Jason Fox will bring to the stage and on tour for the first time the remarkable story of his daring ex...
Jim Davidson
Wednesday 29 January 2025
In the ever-evolving book of British comedy, highly controversial former TV star Jim Davidson OBE remains a best-seller, writing new chapters of hilarity that captivate capacity audiences year after year, with a "gripping tale where free...
Dementia Street
Wednesday 29 - Thursday 30 January 2025
When my mums battle with dementia ended I wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so I wrote a one man play about the seven stages of her cognitive decline....
Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Thursday 30 January 2025
Sing-a-Long-a Productions, producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a Grease brings you their newest show, the smash hit film musical that everyone can't stop singing - The Greatest Showman! Look out 'cause here it com...
10 Nights
Thursday 30 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
The Olivier Award nominated moving and funny play, by Shahid Iqbal Khan, is the story of one man's journey of self-discovery, and facing the consequences of your actions. One man's spiritual journey is about to begin... after he's posted o...
An evening with Dennis Tueart
Thursday 30 January 2025
Join former Manchester City legend and director Dennis Tueart for a night of footballing memories. After winning the FA Cup with Sunderland, he moved to Maine Road and joined City where he became a fans' favourite winning the League Cup an...
Unhinged
Thursday 30 - Friday 31 January 2025
A searing exploration of race and gender in an increasingly fractured city, UNHINGED begs the question: can your version of the past really be trusted?...
Who Is Your Mummy and Where Did She Go
Friday 31 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Inspired by one of the artist's ancestors, Manchester's Company Four delve into Mary Ann Barker's story, which was kept hidden for generations. An autobiographical exploration of postpartum psychosis using the company's unique brand of mul...
Cult/ The Witch
Friday 31 January 2025
With the arrival of Nosferatu on our screens we return to Eggers' captivating debut feature that heralded a new era of movie malevolence. ...
Hard Truths
Friday 31 January 2025
In Marianne Jean-Baptiste, audiences are treated to a performance so intimate in its details, it could almost be moments from a home movie....
Millennial Pink &8211; Work in Progress
Friday 31 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Millennial Pink is a?brand-new piece of contemporary theatre exploring how?00's pop culture shaped millennial?women's ideas around gender, sexuality and self worth in a society which presents young women with complex messaging and conflicti...
Yours Sincerely
Friday 31 January 2025
Don't miss the smash hit comedy from 'Rising Comic Star' (Attitude Magazine) Will Jackson. Based on real-life correspondences; storytelling and lipsync cabaret collide in this queer coming-of-age comedy about the complications of 21st-centu...
NINE - The Musical in Concert
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 February 2025
A Hope Mill Theatre Production In celebration of Hope Mill Theatre's 9th Birthday, they present NINE the Musical in the concert starring Broadway and West End star, RAMIN KARIMLOO as Guido Contini. Nine is a musical with music and lyrics b...
The Hallé - Game On
Saturday 1 February 2025
A mesmerising celebration of symphonic game music. Witness the return of awesome symphonic game music from the Halle. The epic universes of The Witcher 3, World of Warcraft, Ori, The Elder Scrolls, Assassin's Creed, Guild Wars 2, BioShock a...
Katherine Ryan
Saturday 1 February 2025
Star of UKTV's hugely popular new series Parental Guidance as well as Comedy Central's upcoming Out of Order with Rosie Jones and Judi Love, TV's beloved Katherine Ryan makes a hugely welcome return to the stage with her brand-new live stan...
